TH 229 - Theater and Culture I

Credits: 3A study of major periods of Western theater from ritualistic beginnings to 1800. Students explore and analyze how theater's components—plays, acting, design, theory, and management—combine to express and reflect a culture's dominant values. Architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and dance—the constituent arts of theater—will be examined both within and outside the theatrical context to explore aesthetic, socioeconomic, and political values that shape a culture's idea of theater.Note(s): (Fulfills humanities requirement.)G. Dasgupta, E. Ferreira